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Thousand reports
Music streaming giant Spotify experienced widespread disruptions today, leaving thousands of users across the United Kingdom and United States unable to access their favorite tracks and playlists.
Affected customers contacted
Cyber criminals have gained access to Adidas customer data via an external customer service provider.
Controversial AI model
Microsoft opened its cloud platform for Elon Musk’s Grok AI model on Monday. This makes the Group one of the first major cloud providers to enable enterprise customers to use xAI’s AI system.
For human-centric security
The US IT security provider Proofpoint has announced the acquisition of the German company Hornetsecurity. As revealed on Thursday, the corporation aims to strengthen its offerings in Microsoft 365 security solutions.
Notorious ransomware gang
The ransomware group LockBit, known for numerous extortion attacks, has itself become the victim of a hack. Unknown attackers have overwritten the affiliate platforms in the dark web with a clear message: “Don’t do crime. CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague.”
With social behavior assessment
The software group SAP has begun implementing its controversial employee evaluation system. The new procedure, which covers both performance and behavioral aspects, has met with considerable resistance – but will nevertheless be introduced as planned.
16-core model remains
After massive criticism from the industry, Broadcom is apparently sticking to the previous 16-core regulation.
Israel protest
Microsoft has fired two employees after they disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations with protests against military cooperation with Israel.
Threat defense
Google has unveiled an experimental AI model called Sec-Gemini v1, designed specifically to support incident response and threat analysis workflows from its Mandiant division.
Instead of 16
Broadcom is significantly increasing the minimum requirements for VMware licenses. According to VMware distributor Arrow, the minimum number of cores required will increase from 16 to 72 from April 10.
With fake references
A single North Korean agent operated with twelve different identities in Europe and the USA at the same time, while other IT employees were specifically looking for jobs in Germany and Portugal.
Complex, multi-stage tasks
On Monday, Amazon announced Nova Act, a universal AI agent for browser control for simple tasks. At the same time, the company is releasing the Nova Act SDK for developers.